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[sorry2xs]

well a ups for the modem is not to bad but a ups for the S7 is going to to be pricey  
well as long as the temps are not in the hi 35c and humidity is not 95% it will be bearable 

[clgrissom3]

Power was out on this end of the island for an hour and fifteen minutes...then another 15 minutes for the cable modem to resync...that hurt. Gotta scrape together some backup power for the miners/modem/etc. I can't afford to be remaking 5Nd twice a month (about the average for power going out here).

As he said, a UPS solution is going to be pricey and each UPS will add about 25 watts to your load (battery charger).  A standby generator will do the job but you have to cover the time it takes to start the generator.  Sometimes things are just never easy!

[AriesIV10]

The difficulty is dropping dramatically and should be zero or below in just a few hours.
The Big PH Farms are dropping down in expectation of the difficulty levels - What is about to happen over the next two weeks?

Bitcoin Difficulty:   178,678,307,672
Estimated Next Difficulty:   178,950,313,857 (+0.15%)
Adjust time:   After 49 Blocks, About 8.4 hours

[sorry2xs]

just for once i would like that Alloscomp predictions would come thru -10% right now but reality is totally different

[kano]

Power was out on this end of the island for an hour and fifteen minutes...then another 15 minutes for the cable modem to resync...that hurt. Gotta scrape together some backup power for the miners/modem/etc. I can't afford to be remaking 5Nd twice a month (about the average for power going out here).

Um The 5Nd isn't really relevant there.
It's 'being off' that accounts for what you miss.

If you are mining then stop, then your reward heads down until it hits zero when the pool reaches 5Nd after you stopped.
When you start up again it heads up to and reaches max when the pool reaches 5Nd after you restarted.

The side effect of being off for less than 5Nd is that you don't reach zero, but instead have the outage spread out over the 5Nd from when you restart.
So rather than lose all payouts for a short time, you instead lose a fraction of your payouts for 5Nd.

The amount you miss will average to the statistically expected amount for the length of the outage.
i.e. it can be more or less, but is expected, on average, to match the time you were off
The more often you do it, the more it is expected to approach the average expected amount

[firetreeactual]

well a ups for the modem is not to bad but a ups for the S7 is going to to be pricey  

Could be. Just checked w/Zach's dashboard and 5Nd seems to be within .2TH of where it was. Maybe I got lucky. Never did figure out just how long I could be totally down and have to start over.

I've got 3 (and soon perhaps 5) S7s on four different 20A/120V circuits, and six S3s. I'll start with the one circuit that feeds the modem, router, cable signal amp (needed here b/c of the poor signal quality on this end of the island and 40-yr old building with poor coax), one S7 and the workstation and see how that goes.

I can get a true sine 2KW inverter/charger for around US$600 w/shipping. That will handle one circuit. A deep cycle 430RC battery is around $240 at Napa that would provide several hours of backup. I've been planning on doing at least one circuit for some time, as I'm part of the Civil Defense emergency response network here (RACES - AH6TA) and need to keep my base station radio gear online as well. In the instance of a disaster op, I would shut down that circuit's miner(s) to give preference to the HF/VHF radios (they need a total of about 20A for full power). I normally run those radios out of my truck, but need to be able to do it at home as well.

Just saw Kano's note on 5Nd as well...mahalo (thx) for that one. Makes me feel better.

[kano]

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Just saw the note on 5Nd as well...mahalo (thx) for that one. Makes me feel better.

Yeah I had to rewrite a couple of lines ...
Even I get confused about it sometimes

[sorry2xs]

well a ups for the modem is not to bad but a ups for the S7 is going to to be pricey 

Could be. Just checked w/Zach's dashboard and 5Nd seems to be within .2TH of where it was. Maybe I got lucky. Never did figure out just how long I could be totally down and have to start over.

I've got 3 (and soon perhaps 5) S7s on four different 20A/120V circuits, and six S3s. I'll start with the one circuit that feeds the modem, router, cable signal amp (needed here b/c of the poor signal quality on this end of the island and 40-yr old building with poor coax), one S7 and the workstation and see how that goes.

I can get a true sine 2KW inverter/charger for around US$600 w/shipping. That will handle one circuit. A deep cycle 430RC battery is around $240 at Napa that would provide several hours of backup. I've been planning on doing at least one circuit for some time, as I'm part of the Civil Defense emergency response network here (RACES - AH6TA) and need to keep my base station radio gear online as well. In the instance of a disaster op, I would shut down that circuit's miner(s) to give preference to the HF/VHF radios (they need a total of about 20A for full power). I normally run those radios out of my truck, but need to be able to do it at home as well.

Just saw Kano's note on 5Nd as well...mahalo (thx) for that one. Makes me feel better.

nice a miner and ham as well

[firetreeactual]

nice a miner and ham as well
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Just noticed your sig line. 73s! Check out www.kh6e.org the island's radio club site. We maintain the 2M repeater system here and work the EOC's VHF and HF rigs when needed. My truck is assigned to Fire Station 7 for ops as backup to the island's 800mhz trunk system that invariably fails due to being computer-controlled; our setups, of course, don't rely on infrastructure at all. Last time we activated (for anything but a threat) was the Fukushima event.
We've been doing a lot of training and logistics exercises using FLDIGI the past couple of months.

A couple of other retired hams here have seen what I've accomplished and have a high interest (they have a lot of PV on their homes) in BTC and the pool. We'll see how that goes.

[sorry2xs]

I have gone silent but not a silent key yet, like hf radio but the neighbors don't to much qrm haha i gave some plans for some vhf gear in the not to distant future being i live practically on top of a nuclear plant and in a evacuation zone I too live on my va pention and disable.
that is a great view

[Crispyato]

So after 409108 then 409112 are confirmed the next block we get will confirm all waiting?  Curious if you have them coming in the same block and if you are waiting on 409130 to confirm as well.  Thanks Kano

[Swimmer63]

Looks like payments for blocks 409062, 409066, 409100 and 409108 have been sent.  But none of them have been picked up and confirmed yet.  Am I seeing this right?

[philipma1957]

Looks like payments for blocks 409062, 409066, 409100 and 409108 have been sent.  But none of them have been picked up and confirmed yet.  Am I seeing this right?

yes when he sends it is for more then  200 miners it is a lot of bytes to do the send  he pays a 0.002 fee which most other pools choose to skip.

so sometimes we need to hit the block to confirm it.

this saves us miners money and makes our payoffs higher.  each block above would need  maybe 0.02 fee maybe higher.

by doing the 0.002 fee and other pools skipping us we save 0.020 - 0.002 = 0.018 each payment.

actually more since we most likely will do the confirm on those blocks above we would get the 0.002  he sent for each one.

all of the above is the plus side the down side is it can delay payments when we get a 12 hour wait for a block.

if you figure this is saving 0.02 per block  and we hit 836 blocks this is 16.72 btc   of which more then   { Edit }

16 btc was paid back to us. after his small fee of .5%

[lim_1]

How can I get a summary file of my mining stats? Such as rewards, time, hashrate, block difficulty etc?

[Swimmer63]

Looks like payments for blocks 409062, 409066, 409100 and 409108 have been sent.  But none of them have been picked up and confirmed yet.  Am I seeing this right?

yes when he sends it is for more then  200 miners it is a lot of bytes to do the send  he pays a 0.002 fee which most other pools choose to skip.

so sometimes we need to hit the block to confirm it.

this saves us miners money and makes our payoffs higher.  each block above would need  maybe 0.02 fee maybe higher.

by doing the 0.002 fee and other pools skipping us we save 0.020 - 0.002 = 0.018 each payment.

actually more since we most likely will do the confirm on those blocks above we would get the 0.002  he sent for each one.

all of the above is the plus side the down side is it can delay payments when we get a 12 hour wait for a block.

if you figure this is saving 0.02 per block  and we hit 836 blocks this is 16.72 btc   of which more then  15 btc was paid back to us.

Makes perfect sense.  Thanks for the 411.

[philipma1957]

How can I get a summary file of my mining stats? Such as rewards, time, hashrate, block difficulty etc?

the website if you use a name to mine.

if you use a btc address I am not sure.

@ swimmer63

you are welcome.

[kano]

How can I get a summary file of my mining stats? Such as rewards, time, hashrate, block difficulty etc?

Only for username accounts:
Rewards are all listed on the Rewards page.
Hashrate is shown for Rewards and Shifts, but only the last 199 shifts.

[kano]

So after 409108 then 409112 are confirmed the next block we get will confirm all waiting?  Curious if you have them coming in the same block and if you are waiting on 409130 to confirm as well.  Thanks Kano

Every payout I send, I prioritise into our work.
None can be sent before they reach +101

The next block we find after I send a payout, will confirm our payout, if it hasn't been already confirmed.

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Yes as phil said, I put 0.002 BTC as fees on each payout.
So for this month that's been 128 blocks = 0.256 BTC or more than $140 in my currency.
If I made that 0.02 BTC that would be more than $1400 a month in transaction fees ... ... ... not gonna happen

[kano]

Block and last 5 payouts confirmed

[Crispyato]

Awesome   I wouldn't care if you charged a little more.